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Summertime Graffiti

Inspired by Nina Lise’s quilt that shesent to the Festival of Quilts inBirmingham, UK, I was thinkingof summer in the city.

One of the things I enjoy seeingalways is graffiti. I know it annoyssome and I certainly don’t condonehate messages, but I am talking aboutpure drawing on walls thatto me brighten’s the city landscape.

If often think of graffiti as urban speak,a way for those who don’t always havea voice, maybe never have a voice, tospeak and say hey we are here.Drawing as a way of saying we are alive.

In the spirit of both Nina Lise’s quilt andgraffiti and my continued exploration ofthis weaving that I am making, I used theback of a Kashi frozen pizza box and somerecycled magazine pages that had been gluedtogether to create my version of summertimegraffiti.

12 Responses to “Summertime Graffiti”

Your woven pieces really speak to me. I too appreciate "good" grafitti and love how different artists have been allowed to decorate some builings and walls. It's strange; I was actually taking pictures of one of those buildings yesterday.

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